Carroll v. Holway

HARE, District Judge.

This libel is brought by the owners of the schooner Flyaway to recover damages sustained by her at Machias, Me., while occupying a wharf designated by the respondents for the discharge of a cargo of coal. The schooner is a two-masted vessel of the burden of 132 tons. She is 96 feet long, and about 27 feet beam. Her draft loaded is 10% to 11 feet forward and 11% feet aft. At the time of her injury she was chartered to the respondent, Samuel M. Holway, under a charter providing that the schooner should load at Weehawken, N. J., a cargo of 225 tons of anthracite coal for…